ctyankee1 It starts with scared animals running through the forest in this movie like they are afraid of something right in the beginning. I think it was the noise of a plane. The pilot a female, Victoria Mason is above Cambodia near Angkor Wat. She is suppose to fly around the world. She is up to something and she torches the plane to set it on fire and parachutes out.There are also camera men from another country in a canoe with a large camera there to take pictures of that country.Moto is at archaeological dig. He goes to where the airplane crashes and finds the torch that set the plane on fire. He knows something is not right. In the story we don't find out why she did that.Moto is Japanese and is on this island with mixed tribes. One leader wants to kill all white people including the camera men and the other leader Rahah Ali played by J. Edward Brombergrefers wants to marry Victoria the "white" woman. He is very funny.Moto has a cage with a homing pigeon that he sends with messages. He is kind of rough and the pigeon seems to fight. Moto puts a message on him and releases the bird. One of Rahah Ali wives is killed by a dart and they think it was a curse. Victoria is his choice as a wife. Whites are referred to in a bad way by the tribal people.Moto is on a mission he plays a prophet or something in disguise and also a archaeologist. In disguise he directs people away from a temple. He is searching for something and finds a room full of guns and explosives in the temple. He sends Bokor and his men away to watch Moto at the dig. At some point another shipment of guns comes and all hell breaks loose.The funny thing is that everyone's clothes are so clean in all these old movies and Rahah Ali's women are all dressed in jewels and more. Moto's suit is white and even when he comes up from the ground he is spotless. Victor Sen Yung that plays in Charlie Chan as a son is a soldier uncredited in this movie.There is lots of shooting, lots of fires, lots of people from different countries, music, humor and mystery.

babykaren Mr Moto's series are decently written escapism. These were written when you needed to get away from everyday issues and had to contend with radio serials. You had a mystery to solve, scenery that took you away from home-even if a set-and music. The detective is not as stiff as Holmes or Chan yet the villains and motives can be difficult to figure out. Michael Shayne series are similar. Dialogue and story lines - not language, nudity and violence. There is an episode of SG-1 (when the team goes back in time due to an old recording they found of themselves) which duplicated the cache of weapons as Mr Moto finds in this movie. Mr Lorre's character in this series allowed him to show his variety of skills - he was not limited in the roles he was given.

netwallah A curious Oriental/Occidental pulp romance, in which various spies appear in a tiny eastern country not far from Cambodia. One spy is Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre), disguised as a timid archaeologist, and the other is aviatrix Victoria Mason (Rochelle Hudson), who fakes a crash landing in the kingdom. Round this out with two Yank movie guys, one handsome and in charge, the other something of a comic sidekick—he takes one look at Moto and says, "If that guy was in movies, he'd be cast as a murderer." There's also the supposedly dim Raja (J. Edward Bromberg) and an oily, conniving high priest, Bokor (George Regas). High priest of what? The god Siva (pronounced "C-vuh"). Moto discovers a German-supplied arms cache, the Rajah, not so dim after all, intercepts Moto's passenger pigeons and steals a march on Bokor. Moto also assumes a full head-mask and intervenes as a holy man from the top of the world. Bokor wants to throw out the French and all Europeans and keep Asia for the Asians; the Rajah wants to become a real Rajah; they both want the German weapons, but they both die in the explosion, and so the good news, apparently, is that the Germans haven't managed to destabilize the region. As Stephen Crane might say, the natives aren't even nouns, they're only adverbs. Though amusing, this movie is also a bizarre patchwork Orient, with Balinese-costumed dancers, a national religion worshipping Shiva, a Rajah named Ali, soldiers with uniforms like the Chinese around the time of the Boxer Rebellion—no match for the bonhomie and natural prowess of the Yanks and their clever Japanese friend. Another white man playing a clever oriental. Anyway, they all four sail off in a small ship. They're wearing suits and making jokes.

Anne_Sharp It's a testament to the popularity of the Moto series that this dreadful botch was even released to theaters. It was, in fact, held back for several months, and it's easy to see why. While the other Moto films featured production and entertainment values considerably above that of the average "B" film, this silly and embarrassingly amateurish entry is barely recognizable as part of the same series, with its lame-brained phony Orientalia and sub-Republic serial story line. Worst of all, Peter Lorre--the only reason to watch a Moto film in the first place--spends an inordinate amount of time either offscreen or muffled in a disguise that's preposterous even for Moto.